LEPTOGLOSSUM. 33 



Name Viridis, green. 



Near Melrose (Mr. Walter Arnott). Appin (Capt. 

 Carmichael). Coed Coch ; Holm Lacy ; Bristol ; Aberyst- 

 with ; Kilmory, Fern, N.B. (Rev. M. J. Berkeley). Corby 

 Castle, Cumberland, and about Carlisle (Dr. Carlyle). 

 Tyntesfield, near Bristol (Mr. C. Bucknall). Dinrnore, 

 Hereford ! Moccas Woods, near Hereford ! (Mr. C. B. 

 Plowright). 



2. Leptoglossum olivaceum. (Pers.) 



Glabrous, dry, smoky olive ; stem glabrous, yellowish 

 brown, base slightly incrassated, whitish ; club com- 

 pressed, distinct, as long or longer than the stem, in 

 growing old greenish black, white within ; asci cylin- 

 draceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, oblong-elliptic, hyaline, con- 

 tinuous, 25 x 8^; paraphyses filiform. 



Geoglossum olivaceum Pers., " Obs. Myco./' i. p. 40, 

 t. 5, fig. 7 ; Fries, " Sys. Myco," i. p. 419 ; Weinm, " Hym," 

 498 ; Berk., " Outl," t. 22, f. 3 ; Cooke, " Handbk. ," No. 

 1957; "Mycogr," fig. 13; Pat, p. 29, f. 65; Price, 

 t. 16, f. 102. Microglossum olivaceum Gill., " Champ.," 

 p. 26, c. i. 



Exs. Cooke, " Fung. Brit.," i. 650, and ed. ii. 396 ; 

 Phil, "Elv. Brit.," 5; Rabh, "Fung. Eur," 1820. 



On the ground in open grassy places. Autumn. 



Gregarious or caespitose, from 1J to 2 inches high. 

 The club, though distinct from the stem, passes gradually 

 into it without any marked depression ; it is compressed, 

 sometimes sulcate, and twisted, very variable in outline, 

 about J of an inch thick. The stem is cylindrical, usually 

 paler than the club, one-third to three-quarters of the 

 entire height, J of an inch thick. 



Name Oliva, an olive ; from the olivaceous colour. 



|3. purpureum Berk, in "Outl.," t. 22, f. 2, differs 

 only in colour, which is dingy purple ; but, as the colour 

 of the type is very variable brown, olive, or purple it 

 is better to take no account of these differences, further 

 than calling attention to the fact. 



Name Purpureus, purple-coloured. 



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